Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-01-18
A NEW RAILROAD.
The Rocky Fork & Ciarke's Fork Railroad
Company Recently Incorporated.

Company Recently Incorporated.
As long ago as three years IL was
known ~ y few that Influential parties
had become interested Ia the immense
coal fields on the Rocky Fork of the
Clsrke's Fork In Gallatin county. To
corral q large share Of the best coal
lands there and ultimately build q
railroad ~ the mines was the original
object of the Montana parties inter-
.sled. Those parties are Walter Coo
per. Of BozenIsn, Sam'l Word OF Butte
(now Of Helena) and j. b. Hubb.ll, of
Miles City, (now of st. Pau) were the
Montana parties interested In the deal.
A little later they associated with
them Jas. l.. Platt, representing large
railroad interests, and Hamilton
Brown, a man who allured fortune In
Iowa coal mines, and slowly the plan
of action has been natured, through
various evolutions that il would be
useless, and, in some instances, i'm
possible TO describe, the plan has been
gradually developed, until the RESULT
Is the articles Of Incorporation Of the
Rocky Fork d Cooke City railroad.
The papers were filed about three
weeks ago, but ut that time, ~ for
nearly three years previous, public
mention OF the fact was suppressed
the Incorporation articles being partic-
ularly concealed by request, on the as
sumption that some Imaginary injury
would be done by their publication.
The result has been that the story has
leaked out in the east and was In ef.
feet mentioned in the independents
Washington dispatches of some days
ago. The articles Of incorporation
provide that Jas. l.. Platt, Hamilton
Brown, J. b. Hubbell, Walter Cooper
aud Samuel Word have associated
themselves as corporation under the
above name with y capital Of 500. 900
The obi 'ct of the company IL TO build
road as followt: From a Doint on
the Northern Pacific railroad al
point at or near siding
on said Northern Pacific railroad
known as Laurel, In Yellowstone
county, Montana territory; thence by
the most practical route to or near the
mouth Of Clarke's Forke river; thencs
up said Clarke's Fork river, on the
most practical line, to or near the
mouth Of Rock Creek, commonly call
ed Rocky Fork; thence up said Rocky
Fork, on the most feasible route to tn,
coal mines situated on said creek nea
Red Lodge postoffice in Gallatir
county, in said territery; thence b,
the nearest and most practical rout
along the base of the mountains TO
stream known as the saltwater
thence up said Saltwater stream b,
the nearest and most practical route 4
Cooke City, in said Gallatin county
To those unaequsinted with th
plans of tie company We may say tha
its plans include the supply of the An
aconda company with coal, as well a
the Northern Pacific and the UnioI
Pacific. twill deliver coal at prices les
tnan those now in vogue, and propos
es TO do business on q coal land blossom
ing with enormous outcrops OF coal.
This last incorporation demands
right-of-wsy through the Crow reser
walton, and 10 some extent conflict
with the original Cooke county rail
road bill.
Thomas Hanlon. one Of the leading
merchants Of Billings, and connected
with the latter scheme, was In town
yesterday and went over 10 Butte
presumably to arrange for q coDsolida
ton with Hon. Sam Word, whose ar
rapgements in this regard probably
carry large weight. The bill now
pending In congress will let the Goa
road be built, and to II all hail.-Inde
pendent